Fun Project

All maple wood and I am still using printers ink to dye the wood except the white. I use a glaze when when a dye or stain won’t give me the color I need.
Lacquer is the easiest to work with. I was spraying in much too cold temp. and I had to do lots of sanding between coats cause lots of trash was falling from somewhere.
This picture came off the internet and I enlarged it to about 14” square.The hardest part is gluing the pieces back together before the glue set up.

Mark years ago the one item I would look for when going to garage sales was water colors like kids use.

Artist have been using water colors forever but whether this is the same exact stuff? I kinda think printers ink is like india ink? Again, don’t know. I have been buying india ink at Hobby Lobby since 1999 but when these places started selling kits for the home printers and then most of the time the ones who bought them just screwed up their printers and in return added what was left in garage sales. The last I bought was 25 cents a bottle and the bottles are 1/2 pints.
I did this map in 1999 for grand kids. It consist of 2 1/4” sheets of Baltic Birch I cut the states out, stained with water colors and sprayed with a few coats of Lacquer then glued it on to the solid piece. Great for grand kids to learn where the states go. I made more with just the names of capitals of each state and a black dot where each is located on the state.